In the GA Garden Apartment Residential District,
the following regulations shall apply.
A building may be erected or used and a lot
may be used or occupied for the following purposes and no other, provided
that the requirements of the sections following are met. The following
are permitted uses in the GA Garden Apartment District:
A.
Apartment houses or a group of apartment houses which
constitutes a single operating or proprietary unit.
B.
Playgrounds, parks, tot-lots and open spaces.
C.
Parking. Off-street automobile parking and off-street
delivery-collection facilities shall be required. Such parking areas
shall be for the sole use of the occupants of such building and the
visitors thereto.
The general plan for a garden apartment shall
include evidence and facts showing that it has considered and made
provision for, and the development shall be executed in accordance
with the following essential conditions:
A.
The proposed development shall be constructed in accordance
with an overall plan and shall be designed as a unified architectural
unit with appropriate landscaping. If the development of the garden
apartment is to be carried out in stages, each stage shall be so planned
that the foregoing requirements and the intent of this chapter shall
be fully complied with at the completion of any stage. The initial
stage of development shall comprise a total floor area of not less
than 30,000 square feet.
A.
Area of tract. Not less than five acres shall be provided
for every area to be used in whole or in part as a Garden Apartment
Residential District.
B.
Building area. Not more than 12% of the lot area of
each Garden Apartment Residential District may be occupied by buildings.
C.
Setback from streets. There shall be a setback from
the ultimate right-of-way of each street on which the Garden Apartment
Residential District abuts which shall be not less than 50 feet in
depth.
D.
Setback from property lines. There shall be a building
setback from any property line which the Garden Apartment Residential
District abuts of not less than 150 feet from any residential district
or 50 feet from any nonresidential district. Building setbacks between
separate parcels within single GA District shall be 50 feet from each
property line.
E.
Distance between buildings. In the case of two or
more garden apartment buildings located on the same tract, the horizontal
distance measured in feet between the buildings shall not be less
than 45 feet.
F.
Parking.
(1)
For apartment residential use, not less than two off-street
automobile parking spaces shall be required for each dwelling unit.
Initially, 1 1/2 spaces may be constructed, provided that the
remaining required spaces shall be provided and shall be constructed
as is determined from time to time by the Zoning Officer.
(2)
Parking areas shall be placed so as not to interfere
with any recreation or service area and shall not be less than:
(a)
Twenty-five feet from any nonresidential district
property line to which the Garden Apartment Residential District abuts.
(b)
Fifty feet from any residential district property
line to which the Garden Apartment Residential District abuts.
(c)
Twenty-five feet from the ultimate right-of-way
line of any contiguous public street.
(d)
Twenty feet from any garden apartment building
unless said parking is located within the lines of the garden apartment
building walls or in an attached parking garage.
G.
Dwelling units per acre. There shall be no more than
10 dwelling units per acre of lot area.
H.
Height of building. No building shall exceed the height
of 35 feet or three stories, whichever is less.
I.
Paving. All areas provided for use by vehicles and all pedestrian walks shall be constructed in accordance with all pertinent specifications within Chapter 175, Subdivision and Land Development.
J.
Service. Areas for loading and unloading of delivery
trucks and other vehicles and for the servicing of refuse collection,
fuel and other service shall be provided and shall be adequate in
size and shall be so arranged that they may be used without blockage
or interference with the use of accessways or automobile parking facilities.
K.
Access. Provision shall be made for safe and efficient
ingress and egress to and from public streets and highways serving
the apartment without undue congestion to or interference with normal
traffic flow.
L.
Utilities. All buildings within the garden apartment
shall be served by a public sanitary sewage disposal system and public
water supply. All utility lines servicing the garden apartment shall
be placed underground.
N.
Lighting facilities. Lighting facilities provided
shall be arranged in a manner which will protect the highway and neighboring
properties, whether contiguous or not, from unreasonable direct glare
or hazardous interference of any kind. Lighting facilities shall be
required where deemed necessary for the safety and convenience of
garden apartment residents.
Q.
Open space. No less than 30% of the site shall be
maintained in nonvehicular open space. The developer shall be required,
where possible, to preserve or incorporate natural features, such
as woods, streams and open space areas, which add to the overall cohesive
development of the garden apartment and overall community development.
However, all conditions deemed hazardous by the Board of Supervisors,
including natural feature hazards, are to be eliminated or all precautions
deemed appropriate by the Board of Supervisors to reduce the hazard
are to be provided by the developer.
R.
Recreation. The developer shall give consideration
to the provision of community areas, laundry facilities, playgrounds
and tot-lots and other services necessary for the comfort and convenience
of garden apartment residents.
S.
Building size. No single building shall have a total
length, including angles, greater than 200 feet.
T.
Unit requirements. Each dwelling unit shall contain
a minimum of 600 square feet and shall not contain more than two bedrooms.
